United States Congress by U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and U.S. Representatives Kevin Brady, Lizzie Fletcher, Al Green, Sylvia Garcia, Sheila Jackson Lee, Michael McCaul, Troy Nehls, Brian Babin, and Dan Crenshaw. Party affiliation After 1960 and until 2016, Fort Bend County generally voted for Republican candidates in U.S. presidential elections. 58% of Houston area voters in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election voted for George W. Bush. From 2008 and by 2016 increased urbanization caused an increase in votes for Democratic Party candidates in the Houston area, with several unincorporated areas of Harris County selecting Democrats and with declines in Republican voters in River Oaks, Upper Kirby, and Washington Avenue. In the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election, of the 151 election precincts in Harris County, Barack Obama was selected by majorities of voters in 60 of them. In the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, Houston area voters were split nearly evenly between Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Residents of Brazoria, Fort Bend, Harris and Montgomery counties combined had about 20% of the people in Texas who voted for Trump and about 25% of the people in Texas who voted for Clinton. That year Alexa Ura of the Texas Tribune stated that "undeniably" the majority of Harris County voters now selected the Democratic candidate for presidential races. In that election, majorities of voters in 86 Harris County precincts selected Clinton, with the total number of precincts being the same as in 2012. Additionally in 2016 the majority of Fort Bend County voters selected Clinton. Circa 2017, there were ethnically mixed precincts in Harris and Fort Bend Counties with majority Republican voters as well as majority Democratic ones. In 2017 county level officers in Fort Bend County remained majority Republican and there was only one Democrat on the county commissioner's court. Gallery See also Harris County, Texas Fort Bend County, Texas Montgomery County, Texas Notes External links Houston Houston Data Portal 174 Years of Historic Houston Briar Forest Super Neighborhood Office of Emergency Management AlertHouston Politics of Texas Government of Houston